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Scholarship on Teaching
Annotated links to books, articles, and websites about teaching in Theology and Religion   Book Reviewsreviews of books about teaching in higher education Podcastsvarious podcast series Syllabus Collectionsyllabi submitted by faculty The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching0pen-access, free-online Teaching Online for COVID-19resources, advice, and support Browse Topics How ...

The Dean's Bookshelf
Recommended Reading for Deans of Theological Schools It is not uncommon that those who step up to the office of dean at theological schools enter a realm that is daunting and unfamiliar: academic administration and leadership. More often than not, theological school deans previously enjoyed the relatively pastoral life of ...

AAR & SBL Annual Meetings
Highlights from Past Years at the AAR & SBL Annual Meetings A Conversation about Starting Conversations about Teaching (2016) In celebration of 20 years of supporting teachers of theology and religion, the Wabash Center hosted this conversation panel of faculty who have participated in Wabash workshops and are now leading projects to ...

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How to Connect with the Wabash Center 
 The Wabash Center supports theology and religion faculty reflecting on their teaching practice -- in both theological education and undergraduate education, in North America. We facilitate faculty conversations about the goals and processes of teaching and student learning. Our programing develops faculty skills ...

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Articles Available without Subscription on the Wiley Website Teaching Theology and Religion is available by subscription from Wiley-Blackwell. Full article content is also available through EBSCO 1 year after publication (1-year rolling embargo). Portions of the journal are available without subscription: January issue is available throughout the calendar year All Teaching ...

Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World
Click Here for Book Review In Creating Wicked Students, Paul Hanstedt argues that courses can and should be designed to present students with what are known as “wicked problems” because the skills of dealing with such knotty problems are what will best prepare them for life after college. As the ...

Abstracting Grace - further adventures in Art Theology Part Six
The idea of Art Theology raises the question(s): what is art and what is theology? We live within this incredible moment of decolonization where people are interrogating the ideas of the academy and its gatekeepers. Inspired by the decolonizing work so many are engaged in, Art Theology seeks to ...

Faith and Finances
A course by Gary Hoag pitched at multiple levels of higher education analyzes Christian perspectives on money and stewardship.

Spiritual Ecology

Youth and Family Ministry in the Immigrant Church
A 2012 course by Vincent Poon at Tyndale Seminary "designed for those leaders who work with families in the immigrant church setting."

Living Religions of the West
A 1999 course by Daniel Breslauer at the University of Kansas introduces "Judaism, Christianity, and Islam."

Understanding Religious Experience and Expression
A course by Bryan Rennie at Westminster College offers "a phenomenological approach to the study of religion and religious experience."

Disrupting a Single Chronological Narrative to Teach a More Racially Just and Ethnically Inclusive History of Christianity in the United States

Growing a Department: Cultivating Beneficial Processes and Results in the Development of a Team-Taught Capstone Course
This project is designed to cultivate healthy and productive processes for creating a departmental capstone course at Austin College. Through a constructive process, involving all three members of the religion department, the project will engage in critical reflection about issues related to collaborative processes, team teaching, and modeling of collaboration. ...

Theological Education in a Multicultural Environment: Identifying and Evaluating Best Practices for Empowerment. Part I - Research and Planning
The Joint Faculty Multiethnic Concerns Committee of Fuller Theological Seminary proposes a four-stage evaluation of student perceptions of classroom practices. The proposal is conceived as the first part of a larger planning initiative to further policymaking and pedagogy which will support the culturally diverse ministries of our student body. Stage 1 ...

Discovering Student Learning in the Religious Site Visit Assignment
Support for a small research project to identify the goals of the religious site visit assignment with respect to student learning. Specific project goals include: 1) a workshop for Georgia faculty to discuss the religious site visit assignment and determine how best to assess student responses in an experiential learning environment; 2) ...

Rethinking the Christian Studies Classroom: Mapping the Hidden (and Not So Hidden) Dynamics of Teaching Religion in the South
Support is requested to enable a group of professors with responsibilities for teaching Christianity in large public universities in the south to gather during a two-year process in which they reflect critically upon the place of Christian Studies in religious studies in large public universities, develop new models for teaching ...

Extending the Principles of Flipped Learning to Achieve Measurable Results: Emerging Research and Opportunities
As higher education continues to grapple with expanding online coursework in meaningful ways, faculty must confront a perennial question: how can online coursework mirror the rigor of in-person classes while preserving the flexibility that makes online learning attractive to students? In Extending the Principles of Flipped Learning to Achieve Measurable ...

Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time
Concerns about mastery of learning outcomes or competencies, grade inflation, student motivation, and faculty time compel reflection on how we assess students in higher education. In Specifications Grading, Nilson critiques the traditional, point-based grading system and argues that students should be assessed on whether they have mastered course learning outcomes. ...

Understanding Bible by Design: Create Courses with Purpose
Lester, Webster, and Jones came together from different academic contexts to create a practical, succinct resource for professors on course design. Lester and his co-authors set out to demonstrate how the principles of Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s 2005 updated Understanding by Design (UbD) model can be applied to theological ...

Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
Mark C. Carnes’s Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College is the work of a true believer seeking the conversion of others to the path of right pedagogical practice. Fortunately, the approach he advocates, teaching history through month-long, immersive, student-led role-play, seems a worthy recipient of his impassioned ...

Teaching in the Cracks
Teaching in the Cracks: Openings and Opportunities for Student-Centered, Action-Focused Curriculum Brian D. Schultz New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 2017 (xiv + 128 pages, ISBN 9780807758311, $29.95) Teaching in the Cracks by Brian D. Schultz, a professor of education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, explores ways to make current K-12 classrooms more student-empowering, ...